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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by abledon on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:56PM (#26450396)
> 1] https://github.com/TCGV/DeFiOptions

so you _did_ end up buying a boat load of ethereum i presume?

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by tcgv on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:55PM (#26457780)
Not yet. For now the project "alpha" version is only deployed on Kovan testnet, in which ETH is free.

When I started coding this project ETH price was around US$ 500, and gas prices around ~40 Gwei, making it feasible to launch the project on mainnet without much hassle using my own funds.

Since then ETH has gone up to the roof. Now ETH is ~US$ 1900 and gas price ~150 Gewi, making it 14x more expensive to launch.

I'm still evaluating if I should launch on ethereum mainnet or in a different solidity compatible blockchain (ex: Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche) once the project reaches a beta version due to the cost of deployment.

In the project main page I ask for donations for covering deployment costs [1], but so far I was unable to secure any funds.

[1] https://github.com/TCGV/DeFiOptions#support-mainnet

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